Jumpy eggs caught on camera

April 12, 2006 | General | By: Mark VandeWettering

Good thing this isn’t my tax dollars at work:

After two years of work, with a purpose-built steel machine wired up to high-speed cameras, microphones and electronic sensors, a team of Japanese researchers has finally proved that a hard-boiled egg can jump. All it takes, according to Yutaka Shimomura and colleagues of Keio University, is a good spin.

A perfect manifestation of the brainwagon philosophy: “there is much pleasure in useless knowledge”.